Leveraging public health nurses for disaster risk communication in Fukushima City: A qualitative analysis of nurses' written records of parenting counseling and peer discussions

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Goto, Aya ^a,b   Rudd, Rima E ^b   Lai, Alden Y ^c   Yoshida, Kazuki ^a   Suzuki, Yuu ^a   Halstead, Donald D ^b   Yoshida Komiya, Hiromi ^a   Reich, Michael R ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fukushima nuclear accident; Health communication; Japan; Parenting; Public health nurses; Radiation; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COUNSELING; DISASTER; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARENT; PEER GROUP; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMMUNICATION; COUNSELING; DISASTERS; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; JAPAN; PARENTS; PEER GROUP; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; RECORDS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84899491410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-129     Document Type: Article

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